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74th Year No. 265 Good Morning! It's Sunda. JuU 25. 1982 5 Section f0 Pajr. ." ( cni
Bond issue
wish lists
now total
$ 41 million
By Beth A. Hughes
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Requests
totaling more than $ 41 million have
been submitted by departments of
the state government anxious for a
share of renovation and construction
funds that will be generated by the
sale of bonds next year.
But the bond sale will generate
only $ 36.75 million for such projects,
and no one will know how that will be
allotted until the General Assembly
meets for a special session Aug. 16.
The request from the Department
of Higher Education accounts for
$ 4.4 million of the $ 4.6 million ex-cess.
" We've asked for more than
they'll probably give us," admits
Shaila Aery . deputy commissioner of
the department.
The reason for the discrepency be-tween
the department's request and
likely allocation lies in the law that
authorized the bond sale.
On June 8, Missouri voters ap-proved
the sale of $ 600 million in
bonds over the next fiv e years to fi-nance
needed repairs to state build-ings,
as well as such efforts as storm
water and water pollution control.
Bonds totaling $ 75 million will be al-located
mthe special session.
A minimum of 20 percent of this
amount $ 15 million must be
spent on building maintenance and
repair, according to the law ap-proved
by voters. A maximum of 65
percent $ 48.75 million can be
spent on construction and major ren-ovation.
Walter Johnson, director of the Di-vision
of Design and Construction, is
recommending that S27 million be
earmarked for maintenance and re-pairs
and $ 36.75 million go for con-struction
projects and major renova-tion.
The remaining $ 11.25 million
generated by the $ 75 million bond
sale will be used for economic devel-opment,
which the law states must
account for 15 percent of the funds.
Gov. Christopher Bond has set an
Aug. 1 deadline for drafting legis-lation
for distribution of the $ 75 mil-lion.
The proposed legislation will be
drafted by Design and Construction
and the Division of Budget and Plan- run- g,
in coordination with the Divi-sion
of Accounting
The law authorizing sale of the
bonds states that the Department of
Higher Education is to receive 36 3
percent of the money allocated for
construction and renovation. So, in a
burst of optimism, Higher Education
officials based their request on the
hope that the maximum S48.75
million of the $ 75 million would be
diverted into the construction and
renovation category. That would
have meant $ 17.7 million would have
gone into the higher education cof-fers.
According to Johnson's recom--
( See EDUCATION'S, P. 12A)
Israel batters Syrian missile sites
United Press International
Israeli jetfighters destroyed new Syrian mis-sile
battenes in eastern Lebanon early Satur-day
and bombed west Beirut for the third day.
At least one Israeli jet was shot down near the
Syrian border.
Heavy ground fighting between Israeli and
Palestinian forces also erupted around Beirut
airport.
In Tel Aviv, the military command reported
Israeli jets destroyed three Soviet- mad- e SAM-- 8
anti- aircra- ft missile battenes it said Syria
mm ed into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley overnight.
The command said one of its U. S -- made
Phantom jetfighters was shot down by a Syri-an
SAM-- 6 missile while en patrol near the Syrian- Leb-anese
border and the two pilots par-achuted
into eastern Lebanon and were
captured by Syrian troops.
Syria's military command, however, said
one pilot was captured and the other was
killed, but did not give any details. The Syrians
also said two pilotless Israeli reconnaissance
planes were downed.
Four Syrian soldiers were killed and six
wounded during the Israeli raids on their posi-tions
in the Bekaa, the Syrian military said
A military correspondent on Israeli tele-vision
said it was " reasonable" to assume the
sophisticated SAM-- 8 batteries had been oper-ated
by Soviet personnel, but there was no
word from Syria on the report.
Commenting on the uncertainty over the
area from which the SAM-- 6 was fired, Israeli
television quoted official Israeli sources who
said it would be viewed with " great serious-ness"
if the missile were launched from Syria
instead of Lebanon.
" Israel has made great efforts not to attack
Syrian territory during the war, despite the
temptation," the Israeli sources were quoted
as saying. " Nor has Syria fired on our forces
directly from Syrian territory ."
In Beirut, a PLO spokesman said another Is-raeli
plane was shot down over Beirut during
the third Israeli air raid on the western half of
the Lebanese capital in as many days
The PLO information agency WAFA said the
plane was seen " disappearing in flames in an
eastward direction " The Israeli military com-mand
did not immediately comment
Attacking in waves, Israeli jets pounded Pal-estinian
targets in Beirut at three- minu- te in-tervals
for 30 minutes in the morning, hitting
Palestine Liberation Organization offices on
Fakhani Street, refugee camps in the southern
suburbs and the city sports stadium. Iebanese
officials said.
Israeli gunboats joined in for the second dav .
pounding the guerrilla- hel- d coastal highwav
and the inland Bourj Barajneh Palestinian ref-ugee
camp
WAFA said 51 people were killed or wounded
in the attacks, adding that 17 Israelis were
killed and three armored vehicles destroy ed in a firef ight near Beirut airport.
Israeli officials confirmed the fighting but
did not comment on the Palestinian casualty
clauns
The new fighting erupted as U S peace en-voy
Philip Habib shuttled from Saudi Arabia to
Egypt for a meeting with President Hosni Mu-barak.
It also followed a stern warning by Syria that
it would retaliate . with all" weapons-- "
available to it if Israel continued to violate a
tease- fir- e that remains in effect onlv in name
Svna will inflict on the Israelis losses in
equipment and personnel bigger than they
would expect." a Syrian government spokes-man
said
To back up that threat. Syria according to
Israel moved advanced SAM-- 8 mobile mis-siles
into I ebanon ov ernight
The Israeli military command said it was
the first time Syria had moved SAM-- 8 missiles
into Lebanon and Israeli warplanes moved
swiftly to destroy them
BIG TRUCKS Checking how safe they are
At 7: 40 a. m. on Oct. 13, 1978, a
school bus stopped outside Benton,
Mo., to pick up students. In the
morning fog, the driver of a tractor- trail- er
failed to see the bus until it
was too late. Three students were
killed and 20 injured. The truck driv-er
escaped unharmed.
By Phyllis C. Watt
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY More than
30,500 of Missouri's fatal and person-al
injury accidents between 1978 and
1980 involved tractor- traile- rs or
pickup trucks, according to the most
recent study by the state Division of
Highway Safety.
Nationwide, the American Auto-mobile
Association Foundation for
Traffic Safety concluded that the
per- mil- e fatal accident rate for
heavy trucks is twice the rate for
cars The foundation studied acci-dents
on toll roads in 11 states to de--
Inslght
termine the ratio between miles and
accidents.
Statistics verify that when cars
and trucks tangle, auto passengers
are most Likely to be the losers. The
AAA study found that the auto- passeng- er
fatality rate in such acci-dents
is 32 times higher than the fa-tality
rate for truck occupants.
The blame for many truck- relate- d
accidents is placed on car drivers
and weather conditions. But federal
studies have demonstrated that
truck driver fatigue and mechanical
defects in tractor- trailer- s are at
fault in many others and both can
be reduced by truck safety inspec-tors
who can remove truck and driv-er
from the road
In Missouri, inadequate laws and a
strong truck lobby in Jefferson City
stifle the state's ability to keep haz-ardous
trucks off the roads. Califor-nia,
on the other hand, has beefed up
its inspection program and has expe- -
A trucker walks to his rig after grabbing a quick shower and shave at Kingdom City. -- ..
nenced a 30 percent decrease in the
number of accidents caused by
trucks in the past three years.
In the next four issues, the Colum-bia
Missourian will explore the safe-ty,
legal and political problems of
truck inspections. The reports will
draw on interviews with truckers,
truck company officials, truck in-spectors
and industry lobbyists, ob-servations
at a weigh station and
testimony in a 1980 congressional
hearing.
The series will focus on these as-pects
of the issue:
Some kind of mechanical defect
appeared in 91 percent of the trucks
in a series of special inspections by
the Missouri State Highway Patrol
and the state Public Service Com-mission
in 1981
In Missouri and other states, some
truckers charge that truck compa-nies
cut corners on safety when the
economy is tight and force drivers to
take unsafe trucks onto the road
Shelton Combs, superintendent of
safety and maintenance for Orscheln
Bros. Truck Lines Die , says compa-nies
w ould be foolish to do so
" All we have to do is be unsafe and
it come out of our pockets in insur-ance,"
Combs says. " Obviously, if
your accident rates rise, your insur-ance
premiums rise."
Yet state and federal inspectors
continue to find serious problems
with trucks on the road.
John Wright, safety supervisor for
Yellow Freight System Inc. in St
Louis, says such defects often arise
( See DRIVERS, Page 12A)
Ex- U.- S. agent plotted
covert security system
New York Times
WASHINGTON When he was
apprehended last month, Edwin
P. Wilson, a former American in-telligence
agent charged with ille-gally
aiding Libyan terrorists,
was setting out on his own to es-tablish
an elaborate, covert intel-ligence
organization m Central
America, according to documents
outlining the plans
Wilson, who was trying to
strike a deal with the government
to reduce the charges pending
against him, apparently hoped
the White House would under-write
the intelligence operation,
and designed an organization
chart for Project X" that put the
National Security Council at the
top.
White House officials said they
were unaware of Wilson's plans
and would not have provided any
assistance if they had known.
The Central American opera-tion,
according to the documents,
would collect information and
conduct clandestine operations
using dummy corporations to dis-guise
its existence
According to an associate of
Wilson, the plans apparently rep-resented
the final step m a seven- mont- h
effort to make a deal with
the government by offering va-rious
forms of intelligence infor-mation
and assistance to national
security officials in the hope they
would intervene with the Justice
Department on hi-- - behalf
These offers, reflected in let-ters
and other materials that Wil- -
son attempted to send to William
P. Clark, the president's national
security adviser, included infor-mation
about possible Libyan as-sassination
attempts against
President Reagan and efforts by
Libya to obtain nuclear weapons
technology.
The letters were intercepted by
the Justice Department and nev-er
delivered to Clark, according
to sources familiar with the case.
Federal prosecutors working on
the Wilson case would not com-ment
on the letters or the at-tached
reports, but in general
they have said information of-fered
by Wilson was calculated to
create the appearance of cooper-ation
but, in reality, was self- servi- ng
and of limited value.
The centerpiece of Wilson's at-tempted
rapprochement with the
White House apparently was his
plan for a new intelligence orga-nization
in Central America.
The plans called for the organi-zation
to be financed by the De-fense
Department through grants
or contracts with a consulting
company Wilson would establish,
according to documents that out-line
the project. The documents
were provided by a source in-volved
in the planning who asked
not to be identified.
The documents showed the ad-ministration
of the organization
was to be centered in Washing-ton,
with operational headquar-ters
m the Dominican Republic
and field offices in Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Belize and other Cen-tral
American countries
TV ad battle begins
in U. S. Senate race
By Tom Cohen
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Two front- runne- rs
in the Democratic primary
for U. S. Senate have unleashed ag-gressive
radio and television adver-tising
campaigns in the final two
weeks before the election, while the
third has vowed to begin playing
" hardball" with primary opponents.
State Sen. Harriett Woods and Jef-ferson
City banker Burleigh Arnold
this week began statewide television
and radio advertising blitzkriegs
emphasizing their positions rather
than attacking their opponents.
Financially strapped consumer
advocate Tom Ryan, on the other
hand, is lampooning their advertis-ing
efforts by traveling the state
with a homemade billboard bearing
his name. In recent days, he blasted
Arnold tor what Ryan called a hypo-critical
campaign stance on consum
er issues and proposed a constiti
tional amendment hmitin
campaign spending.
Mrs. Woods is the acknowledge
leader as the primary campaign ap
preaches the Aug. 3 election date. A
recent St. Louis Globe- Democrat- KMOX-- TV
survey shows her with a
3-- 1 lead over Ryan and Arnold.
The poll, based on 259 statewide
telephone interviews with people
who said they probably will vote m
the Democratic primary, showed 36
percent favored Mrs. Woods and an-other
35 percent were undecided
Ryan had support from 12 percent of
those surveyed, and Arnold came m
third with 11 percent.
A similar poll two months earlier
showed Mrs. Woods leading Ryan by
a 35- 1- 5 percent margin, with Arnold
a distant third at 6 percent. Unde-cided
in that survey totaled 38 per-cent.
Arnold, a party fund raiser and
Arnold Ryan Woods
back room strategist before the
campaign, has raised the most mon-ey
of tne 11 Democratic primary
candidates and is using it m a final- gas- p
media blast to trv to catch Mrs.
Woods.
Arnold will spend SI 15,000 for tele-vision
advertising, said Tom Pearl,
his campaign manager. The 10- - and
30- seco- nd television ads consume the
lion's share of Arnold's $ 200,000 ad-vertising
budget for the campaign
Mark Abels, a Jefferson City radio
producer who handled production of
the ads, said the final blitz concen-trates
on Arnold and campaign is-sues
rather than other Democratic
candidates
" Our opponents are not mentioned
or alluded to in our advertising."
Abels said. " We're talking jobs, en-ergy
prices, interest rates Econom-ic
issues are the thrust of our cam-paign."
Abels said the same commercials
will be aired throughout the state,
though city viewers and listeners
will get a lighter dose of the farming- oriente- d
ads than rural dwellers
Name recognition for Arnold is the
main goal, Abels said
' When you have a candidate such
( See AD BATTLE, Page 12A )
U. S. sends weapons to help' Somalia
New York Times
WASHINGTON The State Department disclosed Sat-urday
that the United States has begun flying weapons
and military equipment into Somalia to help that nation
repel an Ethiopian incursion.
No details were given but Defense Department offi-cials
said the weapons included air defense radar and
anti- aircra- ft weapons, such as the Vulcan, which shoots
at low- flyi- ng aircraft at a high rate of fire.
A State Department spokesman, Rush Taylor, noting
an announcement of the airlift by Somali radio, said m a
statement: " I can confirm that the United States is air-lifting
military equipment to Somalia. This is in connec-tion
with the recent incursion by Ethopians and Ethiopi- -
an- suppor- ted forces "
So far as could be determined, the weapons and equip-ment
were drawn from a S20 million foreign military
sales credit under a security assistance agreement nego-tiated
when Somalia granted the United States access to
military bases there in 1980.
A radio broadcast from the Somali capital of Mogadi-shu
said that " the Somali people are grateful for this ap-propriate
response . . of arms needed to meet Ethiopian
aggression," according to news dispatches from the re-gion.
The president of Somalia. Mohammed Siad Barre, was
quoted as saying that he had received a message from
President Reagan expressing the " hope that we will
strengthen our cordial relations in the future."
lit town totlsty
7 p. m. Juggling and Magic
Show, Shelter Insurance Cos.
Gardens, 1817 W. Broadway.
7: 30 pjn. " Carousel," Ma-plewood
Barn Community
Theater, Nifong Park. Admis-sion
is $ 2 for adults and $ 1 for
students and senior citizens.
8: 15 p. m. " On Golden Pond,"
University Summer Repertory
Theater. Tickets are $ 5 for
adults, $ 3 for senior citizens
and SI for students.

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74th Year No. 265 Good Morning! It's Sunda. JuU 25. 1982 5 Section f0 Pajr. ." ( cni
Bond issue
wish lists
now total
$ 41 million
By Beth A. Hughes
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Requests
totaling more than $ 41 million have
been submitted by departments of
the state government anxious for a
share of renovation and construction
funds that will be generated by the
sale of bonds next year.
But the bond sale will generate
only $ 36.75 million for such projects,
and no one will know how that will be
allotted until the General Assembly
meets for a special session Aug. 16.
The request from the Department
of Higher Education accounts for
$ 4.4 million of the $ 4.6 million ex-cess.
" We've asked for more than
they'll probably give us," admits
Shaila Aery . deputy commissioner of
the department.
The reason for the discrepency be-tween
the department's request and
likely allocation lies in the law that
authorized the bond sale.
On June 8, Missouri voters ap-proved
the sale of $ 600 million in
bonds over the next fiv e years to fi-nance
needed repairs to state build-ings,
as well as such efforts as storm
water and water pollution control.
Bonds totaling $ 75 million will be al-located
mthe special session.
A minimum of 20 percent of this
amount $ 15 million must be
spent on building maintenance and
repair, according to the law ap-proved
by voters. A maximum of 65
percent $ 48.75 million can be
spent on construction and major ren-ovation.
Walter Johnson, director of the Di-vision
of Design and Construction, is
recommending that S27 million be
earmarked for maintenance and re-pairs
and $ 36.75 million go for con-struction
projects and major renova-tion.
The remaining $ 11.25 million
generated by the $ 75 million bond
sale will be used for economic devel-opment,
which the law states must
account for 15 percent of the funds.
Gov. Christopher Bond has set an
Aug. 1 deadline for drafting legis-lation
for distribution of the $ 75 mil-lion.
The proposed legislation will be
drafted by Design and Construction
and the Division of Budget and Plan- run- g,
in coordination with the Divi-sion
of Accounting
The law authorizing sale of the
bonds states that the Department of
Higher Education is to receive 36 3
percent of the money allocated for
construction and renovation. So, in a
burst of optimism, Higher Education
officials based their request on the
hope that the maximum S48.75
million of the $ 75 million would be
diverted into the construction and
renovation category. That would
have meant $ 17.7 million would have
gone into the higher education cof-fers.
According to Johnson's recom--
( See EDUCATION'S, P. 12A)
Israel batters Syrian missile sites
United Press International
Israeli jetfighters destroyed new Syrian mis-sile
battenes in eastern Lebanon early Satur-day
and bombed west Beirut for the third day.
At least one Israeli jet was shot down near the
Syrian border.
Heavy ground fighting between Israeli and
Palestinian forces also erupted around Beirut
airport.
In Tel Aviv, the military command reported
Israeli jets destroyed three Soviet- mad- e SAM-- 8
anti- aircra- ft missile battenes it said Syria
mm ed into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley overnight.
The command said one of its U. S -- made
Phantom jetfighters was shot down by a Syri-an
SAM-- 6 missile while en patrol near the Syrian- Leb-anese
border and the two pilots par-achuted
into eastern Lebanon and were
captured by Syrian troops.
Syria's military command, however, said
one pilot was captured and the other was
killed, but did not give any details. The Syrians
also said two pilotless Israeli reconnaissance
planes were downed.
Four Syrian soldiers were killed and six
wounded during the Israeli raids on their posi-tions
in the Bekaa, the Syrian military said
A military correspondent on Israeli tele-vision
said it was " reasonable" to assume the
sophisticated SAM-- 8 batteries had been oper-ated
by Soviet personnel, but there was no
word from Syria on the report.
Commenting on the uncertainty over the
area from which the SAM-- 6 was fired, Israeli
television quoted official Israeli sources who
said it would be viewed with " great serious-ness"
if the missile were launched from Syria
instead of Lebanon.
" Israel has made great efforts not to attack
Syrian territory during the war, despite the
temptation," the Israeli sources were quoted
as saying. " Nor has Syria fired on our forces
directly from Syrian territory ."
In Beirut, a PLO spokesman said another Is-raeli
plane was shot down over Beirut during
the third Israeli air raid on the western half of
the Lebanese capital in as many days
The PLO information agency WAFA said the
plane was seen " disappearing in flames in an
eastward direction " The Israeli military com-mand
did not immediately comment
Attacking in waves, Israeli jets pounded Pal-estinian
targets in Beirut at three- minu- te in-tervals
for 30 minutes in the morning, hitting
Palestine Liberation Organization offices on
Fakhani Street, refugee camps in the southern
suburbs and the city sports stadium. Iebanese
officials said.
Israeli gunboats joined in for the second dav .
pounding the guerrilla- hel- d coastal highwav
and the inland Bourj Barajneh Palestinian ref-ugee
camp
WAFA said 51 people were killed or wounded
in the attacks, adding that 17 Israelis were
killed and three armored vehicles destroy ed in a firef ight near Beirut airport.
Israeli officials confirmed the fighting but
did not comment on the Palestinian casualty
clauns
The new fighting erupted as U S peace en-voy
Philip Habib shuttled from Saudi Arabia to
Egypt for a meeting with President Hosni Mu-barak.
It also followed a stern warning by Syria that
it would retaliate . with all" weapons-- "
available to it if Israel continued to violate a
tease- fir- e that remains in effect onlv in name
Svna will inflict on the Israelis losses in
equipment and personnel bigger than they
would expect." a Syrian government spokes-man
said
To back up that threat. Syria according to
Israel moved advanced SAM-- 8 mobile mis-siles
into I ebanon ov ernight
The Israeli military command said it was
the first time Syria had moved SAM-- 8 missiles
into Lebanon and Israeli warplanes moved
swiftly to destroy them
BIG TRUCKS Checking how safe they are
At 7: 40 a. m. on Oct. 13, 1978, a
school bus stopped outside Benton,
Mo., to pick up students. In the
morning fog, the driver of a tractor- trail- er
failed to see the bus until it
was too late. Three students were
killed and 20 injured. The truck driv-er
escaped unharmed.
By Phyllis C. Watt
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY More than
30,500 of Missouri's fatal and person-al
injury accidents between 1978 and
1980 involved tractor- traile- rs or
pickup trucks, according to the most
recent study by the state Division of
Highway Safety.
Nationwide, the American Auto-mobile
Association Foundation for
Traffic Safety concluded that the
per- mil- e fatal accident rate for
heavy trucks is twice the rate for
cars The foundation studied acci-dents
on toll roads in 11 states to de--
Inslght
termine the ratio between miles and
accidents.
Statistics verify that when cars
and trucks tangle, auto passengers
are most Likely to be the losers. The
AAA study found that the auto- passeng- er
fatality rate in such acci-dents
is 32 times higher than the fa-tality
rate for truck occupants.
The blame for many truck- relate- d
accidents is placed on car drivers
and weather conditions. But federal
studies have demonstrated that
truck driver fatigue and mechanical
defects in tractor- trailer- s are at
fault in many others and both can
be reduced by truck safety inspec-tors
who can remove truck and driv-er
from the road
In Missouri, inadequate laws and a
strong truck lobby in Jefferson City
stifle the state's ability to keep haz-ardous
trucks off the roads. Califor-nia,
on the other hand, has beefed up
its inspection program and has expe- -
A trucker walks to his rig after grabbing a quick shower and shave at Kingdom City. -- ..
nenced a 30 percent decrease in the
number of accidents caused by
trucks in the past three years.
In the next four issues, the Colum-bia
Missourian will explore the safe-ty,
legal and political problems of
truck inspections. The reports will
draw on interviews with truckers,
truck company officials, truck in-spectors
and industry lobbyists, ob-servations
at a weigh station and
testimony in a 1980 congressional
hearing.
The series will focus on these as-pects
of the issue:
Some kind of mechanical defect
appeared in 91 percent of the trucks
in a series of special inspections by
the Missouri State Highway Patrol
and the state Public Service Com-mission
in 1981
In Missouri and other states, some
truckers charge that truck compa-nies
cut corners on safety when the
economy is tight and force drivers to
take unsafe trucks onto the road
Shelton Combs, superintendent of
safety and maintenance for Orscheln
Bros. Truck Lines Die , says compa-nies
w ould be foolish to do so
" All we have to do is be unsafe and
it come out of our pockets in insur-ance,"
Combs says. " Obviously, if
your accident rates rise, your insur-ance
premiums rise."
Yet state and federal inspectors
continue to find serious problems
with trucks on the road.
John Wright, safety supervisor for
Yellow Freight System Inc. in St
Louis, says such defects often arise
( See DRIVERS, Page 12A)
Ex- U.- S. agent plotted
covert security system
New York Times
WASHINGTON When he was
apprehended last month, Edwin
P. Wilson, a former American in-telligence
agent charged with ille-gally
aiding Libyan terrorists,
was setting out on his own to es-tablish
an elaborate, covert intel-ligence
organization m Central
America, according to documents
outlining the plans
Wilson, who was trying to
strike a deal with the government
to reduce the charges pending
against him, apparently hoped
the White House would under-write
the intelligence operation,
and designed an organization
chart for Project X" that put the
National Security Council at the
top.
White House officials said they
were unaware of Wilson's plans
and would not have provided any
assistance if they had known.
The Central American opera-tion,
according to the documents,
would collect information and
conduct clandestine operations
using dummy corporations to dis-guise
its existence
According to an associate of
Wilson, the plans apparently rep-resented
the final step m a seven- mont- h
effort to make a deal with
the government by offering va-rious
forms of intelligence infor-mation
and assistance to national
security officials in the hope they
would intervene with the Justice
Department on hi-- - behalf
These offers, reflected in let-ters
and other materials that Wil- -
son attempted to send to William
P. Clark, the president's national
security adviser, included infor-mation
about possible Libyan as-sassination
attempts against
President Reagan and efforts by
Libya to obtain nuclear weapons
technology.
The letters were intercepted by
the Justice Department and nev-er
delivered to Clark, according
to sources familiar with the case.
Federal prosecutors working on
the Wilson case would not com-ment
on the letters or the at-tached
reports, but in general
they have said information of-fered
by Wilson was calculated to
create the appearance of cooper-ation
but, in reality, was self- servi- ng
and of limited value.
The centerpiece of Wilson's at-tempted
rapprochement with the
White House apparently was his
plan for a new intelligence orga-nization
in Central America.
The plans called for the organi-zation
to be financed by the De-fense
Department through grants
or contracts with a consulting
company Wilson would establish,
according to documents that out-line
the project. The documents
were provided by a source in-volved
in the planning who asked
not to be identified.
The documents showed the ad-ministration
of the organization
was to be centered in Washing-ton,
with operational headquar-ters
m the Dominican Republic
and field offices in Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Belize and other Cen-tral
American countries
TV ad battle begins
in U. S. Senate race
By Tom Cohen
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Two front- runne- rs
in the Democratic primary
for U. S. Senate have unleashed ag-gressive
radio and television adver-tising
campaigns in the final two
weeks before the election, while the
third has vowed to begin playing
" hardball" with primary opponents.
State Sen. Harriett Woods and Jef-ferson
City banker Burleigh Arnold
this week began statewide television
and radio advertising blitzkriegs
emphasizing their positions rather
than attacking their opponents.
Financially strapped consumer
advocate Tom Ryan, on the other
hand, is lampooning their advertis-ing
efforts by traveling the state
with a homemade billboard bearing
his name. In recent days, he blasted
Arnold tor what Ryan called a hypo-critical
campaign stance on consum
er issues and proposed a constiti
tional amendment hmitin
campaign spending.
Mrs. Woods is the acknowledge
leader as the primary campaign ap
preaches the Aug. 3 election date. A
recent St. Louis Globe- Democrat- KMOX-- TV
survey shows her with a
3-- 1 lead over Ryan and Arnold.
The poll, based on 259 statewide
telephone interviews with people
who said they probably will vote m
the Democratic primary, showed 36
percent favored Mrs. Woods and an-other
35 percent were undecided
Ryan had support from 12 percent of
those surveyed, and Arnold came m
third with 11 percent.
A similar poll two months earlier
showed Mrs. Woods leading Ryan by
a 35- 1- 5 percent margin, with Arnold
a distant third at 6 percent. Unde-cided
in that survey totaled 38 per-cent.
Arnold, a party fund raiser and
Arnold Ryan Woods
back room strategist before the
campaign, has raised the most mon-ey
of tne 11 Democratic primary
candidates and is using it m a final- gas- p
media blast to trv to catch Mrs.
Woods.
Arnold will spend SI 15,000 for tele-vision
advertising, said Tom Pearl,
his campaign manager. The 10- - and
30- seco- nd television ads consume the
lion's share of Arnold's $ 200,000 ad-vertising
budget for the campaign
Mark Abels, a Jefferson City radio
producer who handled production of
the ads, said the final blitz concen-trates
on Arnold and campaign is-sues
rather than other Democratic
candidates
" Our opponents are not mentioned
or alluded to in our advertising."
Abels said. " We're talking jobs, en-ergy
prices, interest rates Econom-ic
issues are the thrust of our cam-paign."
Abels said the same commercials
will be aired throughout the state,
though city viewers and listeners
will get a lighter dose of the farming- oriente- d
ads than rural dwellers
Name recognition for Arnold is the
main goal, Abels said
' When you have a candidate such
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U. S. sends weapons to help' Somalia
New York Times
WASHINGTON The State Department disclosed Sat-urday
that the United States has begun flying weapons
and military equipment into Somalia to help that nation
repel an Ethiopian incursion.
No details were given but Defense Department offi-cials
said the weapons included air defense radar and
anti- aircra- ft weapons, such as the Vulcan, which shoots
at low- flyi- ng aircraft at a high rate of fire.
A State Department spokesman, Rush Taylor, noting
an announcement of the airlift by Somali radio, said m a
statement: " I can confirm that the United States is air-lifting
military equipment to Somalia. This is in connec-tion
with the recent incursion by Ethopians and Ethiopi- -
an- suppor- ted forces "
So far as could be determined, the weapons and equip-ment
were drawn from a S20 million foreign military
sales credit under a security assistance agreement nego-tiated
when Somalia granted the United States access to
military bases there in 1980.
A radio broadcast from the Somali capital of Mogadi-shu
said that " the Somali people are grateful for this ap-propriate
response . . of arms needed to meet Ethiopian
aggression," according to news dispatches from the re-gion.
The president of Somalia. Mohammed Siad Barre, was
quoted as saying that he had received a message from
President Reagan expressing the " hope that we will
strengthen our cordial relations in the future."
lit town totlsty
7 p. m. Juggling and Magic
Show, Shelter Insurance Cos.
Gardens, 1817 W. Broadway.
7: 30 pjn. " Carousel," Ma-plewood
Barn Community
Theater, Nifong Park. Admis-sion
is $ 2 for adults and $ 1 for
students and senior citizens.
8: 15 p. m. " On Golden Pond,"
University Summer Repertory
Theater. Tickets are $ 5 for
adults, $ 3 for senior citizens
and SI for students.